BRIGGS, TRIGONOMETRIA BRITANNICA, GOUDA, 1633, FOLIO

FIRST EDITION, folio (350 x 212mm.), half-title, woodcut diagrams, modern panelled calf in period style, modern folding cloth box, some soiling and damp-staining, half-title restored at edge, S6 repaired (just touching printed area), last few leaves slightly chipped or frayed, label on spine and on box attribute the work to Gellibrand 

bought from Sebastopol Bookshop, Sebastopol, CA, 1985

Tomash & Williams B256; STCN 056448481

the condition of this lot is as described in the catalogue description
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"After completing his calculation of logarithms of the natural numbers, Henry Briggs began the immense task of creating a table of sines, tangents, secants, logarithms of sines and logarithms of tangents. He completed the calculations but was not able to finish an introduction before his death. His friend Henry Gellibrand took on the task of finishing the preface and seeing the work through the press" (Tomash & Williams).